The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-11-03
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.


The thorough Interviewing of tho
roots of Christianity with the history
otthe world on which it has sprung, is at
once the source of its power and an
assurance Of its divlneness.-James
Martineau.
Many people spend their timein try
inc to find the hole where sin got into
the world. II two men break through
tho ice into the mill.pond, they had
better hunt for some hole to get out,
rather than 60 into long argument
about the hole they came to fall in.
Mr.. D. L. Moody has arranged to
have Wing Lee. proprietor Of q Chinese
laundry at Hartford. Conn.,, enter his
Mount Hermon School at Mortified.
Mass. to prepare himself for the min
istry. He is called q remarkably
bright Chinaman, far in advance of
the great mass of his race.
Learn, o student, the true wisdom.
See your bush adame with roses. like
the burning bush of Moses. Listen,
and then thou shalt hear, if thy soul
be not deaf, how from out it, soft
and clear, speaks to thee the Lord Al
mighty.-Persian (Hafz), Conway.
Prof. F. A. Byerly. says the Rich
mond Religious Herald, has a little
boy of four years named Harry. He
is very pretty (takes after his moth
cry. One day Harry was scribbling
away (going through the forms of let
ter writing), and when asked what he
was dong, he said: II am doing what
pa is all the time doing; Tn writing to
the brethren about the money"
|: OF pulpit exchange the Independent
says: "A few pastors exchange too
often and suffer criticism touching
their industry in preparing for the pull
pit; but most pastors exchange too
seldom. A more frequent ami broad
er system of exchange among pastors
of the same city or even neighboring
cities and towns would tend to enlarge
and make more real the fellowship OF
the churches. It would also do much
to take both churches and people out
of ruts of thought. No man is so
comprehensive in his mind and habit
of thought rs to cover the whole field
OF teaching or method"
The Sabbath is sacred to rest.
Weary humanity must have repose.
Fortunately bodily rest does not con-
! flict with intellectual and moral i'm
provement, but is necessary to it.
The Sabbath does not restrict us to
sombre thoughts and musings, but
should be devoted to serious inquiry
into relations we sustain to our Crea-
tor, to our fellow-men, the obligations
way to discharge them, end to cheer
full, edifying social intercourse. So
long as weighty problems. of human
life demand solution, so loug as vital
human interests claim our attention
We cannot afford to let Sabbath hours
pass unimproved.
The Baptist Weekly says: "Soon
after DR.. Archibald Alexander moved
to Princeton, and while he was yet
stranger in that region, he went out
one Sabbath afternoon to preach in q
schoolhouse where the theological stu
dents had been keeping up n service.
He preached one of his cubic crystal
sermons-givingt the result of years of
thought and study in his inimitably
simple style. And one OF the rustic
hearers said: Il like that old man.
He is not learned like those seminary
fellows who generally preach here, but
l could understand every word that
he said"
Not long ago the writer asked class
OF small boys in Sunday school what
was their idea of heaven. 1t was curl
Gus to note how their replies were in
fluenced by their own circumstances
in life. A ragged little urch,n who had
been born and brought up in squat
i'd city street, said it was call grass
and green trees;" one from the richer
quarter of Boston said it was like a
big, broad avenue, with tall houses on
each side. A sweet-voiced Episcopal
choir-boy was OF the opinion that peo-
pie would sing q good deal in heaven
The last member in the cIass-a quiet
thoughtful boy, though one of the
smallest in the class-answered, "A
place OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES never sor.
ry!"-Our Sunday Afternoon.
l wish to give my testimony from
an experience of twenty five years, to
the absolute safety of receiving chill
dren to the church, and to the inesti-
mable benefit to them of this holy
relationship. In passionate of six
teen years over one church, had an
opportunity of testing This question,
for have watched the lives of those
who grew up to manhood and woman
hood in the church. and l can say
with great Joy, that have never seen
occasion to discipline one o:th:s class,
but on the contrary, they have de.
veloped with advancing years in
spiritual graces, and have become the
most earnest and consistent church.
members.-Abbott F. Kittredge d. D.
Phil. Armour's Charity.
Not long ago a Chicago clergyman
called on Phil Armour in behalf of a
young woman whom he had found
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